This informal sketch of Thomas Jefferson Hogg was made while he sat playing chess at Boscombe Manor. Hogg was a welcome guest at Boscombe, and a regular correspondent of Lady Shelley’s until the publication of the first two volumes of his biography of Shelley in 1858.
Owners
Sir Percy and Lady Shelley; (bequest, 1889) Lady Shelley; (bequest, 1899) Shelley Scarlett (later 5th Baron Abinger) and/or Robert Scarlett (later 6th Baron Abinger); (bequest, 1917) Robert Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger; (bequest, 1927) Hugh Scarlett, 7th Baron Abinger; (bequest, 1943) James Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger; (bequest, 2002) James Scarlett, 9th Baron Abinger; (purchase, 2004) Bodleian.
References
Another, near-identical ink sketch dated 1857, now [pr.] Shelley e.8, facing p. 1229, is reproduced with attribution to Easton and caption ‘Thomas Jefferson Hogg, as he sat playing at chess at Boscombe’ by Mrs. Julian Marshall, The life and letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 2 vols. (London: 1889), ii, pl. facing p. 305.
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